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WHAT’S IT LIKE TO major in International Business?
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FACULTY PROFILE Edinaldo Tebaldi, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Economics
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Senior lands job with Global Defense Giant
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A successful internship helped Mallory Rousseau ’11 secure a full-time job well before Commencement.
hen Mallory Rousseau ’11 (Fitchburg, MA) started looking at colleges, she wanted to study business at a big school in an urban setting. She applied to three New England institutions with impressive business curriculums – and more than 40,000 undergraduate students. Meanwhile, Rousseau’s dad convinced her to submit a Common Application to Bryant, which she did a few days before the deadline. Acceptance letters began to arrive, including one from Bryant that also contained an invitation to a scholarship dinner in Providence and an Admitted Student Open House on campus. Rousseau decided to check it out. “At the dinner, I met students and faculty who told me about what Bryant had to offer,” she says, “and I left Providence with a very positive impression – without having seen the school. Early the next morning, my parents and I drove to campus for the open house. Even in
the pouring rain, I knew Bryant was the school for me. I sent my deposit the very next day.” Following a semester in Introduction to Finance, a class that she absolutely loved, Rousseau declared Finance as her major. As a sophomore, she began to research summer internships and found a corporate finance position with BAE Systems, a global defense contractor headquartered in Nashua, NH. She discovered it through the Bryant Career Connection (BCC), a resource offered by the University’s Amica Center for Career Education. “It’s so important for students to understand the advantage they have just by being a Bryant student,” she says. “The Amica Center staff is committed to seeing every student get the internship or job of his or her dreams. Employers respect Bryant as an institution and value its CONTINUED ON PAGE 8
Career Fair 2011 Employers were impressed by the preparedness, excellent caliber, and professionalism of Bryant students at the 2011 Career Fair, sponsored by the Amica Center for Career Education. More than 720 students met with 200 recruiters and alumni representatives from 91 participating organizations at the event. Employer participation increased by 25 percent over last year, a hopeful sign of an improving economy as well an indication of Bryant’s strong reputation as a recruiting source of talented candidates, according to Kathleen Clarkin, the center’s manager of corporate recruiting.
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